The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 1, 2000 -- Volume 6, Number 15
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Frank Lingo
Overshadowing the Republicans

EDITORIAL
The center cannot hold

JIM HIGHTOWER
Ford creates jobs in wrong heartland;
New Vietnam war;
Burning chemical weapons in Utah;
'New economy' vs. real economy;
OO7 Inc.;
Social Scourge of 'Shoeism.'

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Here come the clones

CONVERSATIONS/Jim Van Der Pol
Attack of the super co-op

KEN JEROME-STERN
Nader unveils farm and food policy

DISPATCHES
Politics slows down China trade bill

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
New inspection regs allow funky poultry

SOLUTIONS/American News Svc.
Hemp sparks growth of new industry

WAYNE O'LEARY
The liberal dilemma

JOHN BUELL
Opportunity and estate taxation

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel
Tax cutters ignore lessons of history

DAVID BACON
Immigrants shouldn't be high-tech servants

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Violence begs for summit

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Watching a job disappear

PHIL T. RICH & MILLIE O'NAIR
Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)

RUTH CONIFF
Bikinis upset GOP love-in

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
GOP flush with cash

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
It's reach-out time again

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Conventional wisdom

TED GLICK
Then and now

MITCH TRACHTENBERG
The speech you won't hear:
Solving our energy problems

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Me and my shadows

PRIMAL SCREED/James McC. Yeager
It's party time

GLOBAL CITIZEN/Donella Meadows
Media misses environment onslaught

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Pleasantville party floats on a media cloud

CORPORATE FOCUS/Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
Carmakers take us for a ride

TED RALL
Road rage marketing

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Congress wins Casablanca award

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Consumers advocate needed in D.C.

JESSE JACKSON
The first choice

OPEN LETTER/Michael Moore
Bush, Gore make me wanna Ralph

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Babbit's vision would preserve landscapes

ESSAY/Eugene J. McCarthy
Outside help

MOLLY IVINS
Republicans seem bred for political circuses;
Suggestions for Republicans;
Tax breaks for the rich


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